Artist Sam Taylor-Wood in new health scare

Sam Taylor-Wood, who has beaten cancer twice, has now had to fight pneumonia.

Sam Taylor-Wood has become seriously ill againPhoto: Rex Features

Tim Walker. Edited by Richard Eden

6:28AM BST 07 May 2011

Sam Taylor-Wood, who has twice overcome cancer, has been fighting a new health battle. Mandrake is sorry to report that the 44-year-old artist, who gave birth to her first child by her fiancé, the actor Aaron Johnson, last July, has become seriously ill again.

“She had a chest infection that developed into pneumonia,” confirms a spokesman for her office. The artist is, she says, now on the mend.

As well as her daughter, Wylda, by Johnson, 20, whom she met when he played John Lennon in the film Nowhere Boy, which she directed, Taylor-Wood has two daughters by Jay Jopling, an Old Etonian art dealer. They split up in 2008.

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